Bedstead



Sept'. 28,1926. 1

` L. FRANK ET AL l BEDSTEAD Filed Feb. 12 .Y 1925 `2 sheets-'sheet 1 Il A Patented Sept. 28, 1925. A i

UNITED? STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS FRANK, OF FLUSHING, AND ISEDORE GUREVI'LCH, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TO GREENPOINT METALLIC BED CO. INC., OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BEDSTEAD.

Application filed February The invention relates to improvements in bedsteads, and pertains particularly to the corner posts and bedstead sides and to corner fastening members for securing said sides at their ends to the corner-posts.

One purpose of the invention is to provide a bedstead having broad or deep sides of wood, and a further purpose of the invention is to provide adequate corner fastening members for securing the ends of the deep or broad bedstead sides to the corner posts. The bedstead sides have secured at their inner faces and away from the horizontal longitudinal edges of said sides, angleiron supporting rails which are adapted to receive any usual style of bedstead spring, whether of box type or otherwise, and support the samebelow the upper edges of the bedstead sides. The angle iron supporting rails are secured to the inner faces of the bedstead sides and at their ends cooperate with certain corner fastening members riveted'thereto for engagement with special corner fastening members rigidly secured tol the vertical inner or facng sides of the corner posts. While we prefer to form the bedstead sides of wood, we realize that these wooden sides ma)7 be imitated in sheet steel, and hence we do noty limit the invention solely to the employment of wood in the construction of the broad or deep bedstead sides.

Our invention provides a bedstead which is attractive and which is effective in that all the parts thereof are held in very firm relation to one another and yet may be disassembled without diiiicult-y. A further feature of the invention is to so construct the metallic portions applied to the wooden bedstead sides that said sides may be reversed end for end and turned upside down and applied to the corner fastening members secured to the corner-posts, thereby causing the supporting fiange for theV bedstead spring to attan a lower position, to suit the nature of the springs, than would be the case if said sides were not reversible.

The invention will be fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a vertical transverse section through a bedstead constructed in accordance with and embodying my invention, the

12, 1925. Serial No. 8,603.

section being on the dotted line 1 1 of Fig. 4 g l y Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view, partly broken away and partly in section, of one of the cornei1 posts of the bedstead and the corner fastening members Carried thereby for cooperaton with the coacting corner l[fatening members carried by the side of the Fig. 3 is a perspective view, partly broken away, of one end portion of a side of the bed and the corner fastening members carried thereby for cooperation with the corner fastening members carried by the corner post and shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a horizontal secton, partly broken away, through the bedstead, taken on the dotted line 4 4 of Fig. 1;

- Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section, partly broken away, an-d on a larger scale, through the bedstead, taken on the dotted line 5 5 of Fig. 4;

Fig. v6 is a horizontal section through a portion of the same, taken on the dotted line 6 6 of Fig. 5

Fig. 7 is a vertical transverse section through a portion of a modfied embodiment of the invention, the modification consisting in making the side'of the bedstead of sheet steel instead of wood, which is the material shown in Fig. 1, and

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary vertical section through a porton of the bed and is present-ed to illustrate that the side of thev bed may be inverted, that is, turned upside down and turned end for end and applied to the corner fastening members carried by the bed posts, the construction shown in Fig. 8 presenting the same corner fastening members as those shown in the other figures of the drawings.

In the drawings, 10 denotes the headframe of the bedstead, 11 the foot-frame thereof, 12 the bedstead sides, and 13 the corner posts. The sides 12 are preferably of wood, but may be imitatedin sheet steel, as I indicate at 14 in Fig. 7. The head and foot frames 10, 11, respectively, may be of any suitable construction, and two of the corner-posts 13 are secured to the ends of the head-frame andA two of said corner-posts are secured to the ends of the foot-frame. The corner-posts 13 are preferably rectangular in cross-section and have secured to theirl in-l ner facing transverse surfaces, the cornerfastening member illustrated in perspective in Fig. 2, this corner fastening member comprising an angle plate, one flange 15 of which is sunken into the surface of the corner-post and securely fastened thereto by screws 16, the other flange 17 of said angle plate being extended longitudinally and formed with a vertical recess 18 and a hook member 19 which extends upwardly and at its inne-r edge 2O is tapered downwardly and inwardly toward the bottom of the recess 18 so as to form awedge surface to coact with the corner fastening member carried by the bedstead side 12. The corner fastening` member carried by the post also comprises a vertical stop plate 21 which is riveted to the flange 17 of the said angle plate and laps against the longitudinal iace of trie cornerpost` 13, as shown in Fig. 2, the outer edge 22 of said plate 21 being set outwardly from the adjacent edge 23 of the flange member 17, said edge 23 thus being offset from or standing inwardly from the edge of said plate 21. The plate 21 is secured to the angle member 17 by means of rivets 211, and hence is substantially integral with the post corner fastening member and besides performing other duties aids in the secure union of the corner fastening member with the post. 1 number the corner fastening member, 25 as a whole. Each post 13 is provided with a. corner fastening member 25 and these members are all alike. The bed sides 12 correspond with each other and one purpose of the invention is to provide a broad or deep bedstead side and to form the same of wood, although as aforesaid, this wooden bedstead side may be imitated in sheet steel, as indicated at 14 in Fig. 7. The bedstead side 12 has plain inner and outer faces, and upon the inner face of each bedstead side is secured by screws or otherwise an angle iron supporting rail 26 which extends longitudinally of the side 12 andV has one flange 27 against the face of the side 12 and its other face 28 extending horizontally and inwardly from and at right angles to the inner face of the side 12, as shown in Fig. 3. rlhe flanges 28 of the angle iron rails 26 extend toward each other, as shown in Fig. l, and serve to receive and support the spring which may be applied to the bed whether the spring is of box type or of metallic type, the particular construction of the spring being unimportant, the essential condition being that the angle iron rails 26 be adapted to receive and support the spring below the upper edges of the bed sides 12. The end portions of the flanges 28 of the angle iron supports 26 are cut away, as shown in Fig. 3, and this is for the purpose of permitting the bedstead side to be reversed end for end and turned upside down and applied to the corner fastening members 25 in the manner shown in Fig. 8 in which it may be seen that the ange member 28 of the angle iron rail 26 is disposed at the lower edge of said rail, thereby a-llowing increased space between said flange and the upper edge of the bedstead side to receive such special style of spring as it may be desired to use on the bedstead.

To each end of the flange 27 of each supporting rail 26 is secured by a rivet 29, a corner fastening plate 30 comprising an inner tongue member 31 which engages the face of and is riveted to the aforesaid flange 27 and a vertical elongated plate member 32 which is offset from the tongue member 31 and extends outwardly toward' t-he corner post and is spaced from the end portion 33 of the flange 27, as shown in Fig. 3. The plate member 32 is connected by a rivet 36 with the end portion 33 of the flange 27 and on this rivet 36 and between said members 32, 33 is applied a roller or bushing 37. The outer vertical edge of the plate member 32 is recessed, as at 38, leaving outwardly extending vertical projections 39, whose function is in the assembly of the parts to engage the inner vertical edge 22 of the back or stop plate 21 forming a portion of the corner fastening member 25, as shown in Fig. 5. Y

1n the assembly' of the parts of the bedstead, the bedstead sides are positioned between the corner posts of the head and foot frames, and the corner fastenings provided on the ends of the supporting rails 26 are engaged with the corner fastening members 25 of the corner posts, this engagement being effected by allowing the rollers or bushings 37 on the rivets 36 to settle downwardly into the wedge shaped recesses 18 of the corner post angle. members 17, as will be understood on reference to'Fig. 5, and allowing the projections 39 on the side fastening members 30 to engage the vertical edges 22 of the back or stop plates 21. The inclined or wedge edge 2O of the members 19 of the post corner fastening members 25 serve to force the projections 39 forwardly against the back plate or stop 21, as shown in Fig. 5, and hence when the ends of the bedstead side are engaged with the corner fastening Ymembers 25, said bedstead side has its ends brought up flush against the facing vertical surfaces of the corner posts, as shown in Fig. 4., and said bedstead side becomes very firmly secured in position. The broad ends o-f the bedstead side 12 present extended surfaces to engage the corner posts 13, and this in itself is a benefit, and the interengaging corner fastening members 25, 30 when o-f the construction presented firmly bind. and lock4 the bedstead side in operative position. When the bedstead sides 12 are in operative position, the flanges 28 of the supporting angle iron rails 26 extend toward each other, as

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shown in Fig. 4, and present broad rigid shelves or supports for the bedstead spring.

The construction hereinbefore described enables us to make a very attractive bedstead having vertically broad or deep wooden sides, with the supporting rails 26 wholly concealed. The construction is also such that the bedstead sides may be inverted and turned end for end and applied to the corner posts 13, as will be. understood on reference to Fig. 8, the supporting iiange 28 of the angle rail 26 then extending from what is then the lower edge of the iange 27.

lVe prefer to form the bedstead sides 12 of wood and to highly nish the same, for our bed is an attractive one, but we are aware that said sides may be imitated in sheet steel, as We indicate in Fig. 7, wherein 14 denotes the broad bedstead side formed of sheet steel and which side is equipped with the same spring supporting rail and end cornerfastening members that I illustrate in Fig. 3. We do not wish, therefore, to coniine the invention in every instance to the use of wood in forming the bedstead sides 12.

Wlhat we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

A bedstead having head and foot frames including cornervposts; an angular bracket secured to each corner post, each bracket comprising a transverse flange. with its eX- posed surface flush with the corner post and a vertical longitudinal flange having a tapered tongue; a vertical stop-plate riveted to the inner side of each angular bracket and overlying the corresponding corner post; side rails extending between the head and foot frames; fastening means carried by the side rails for engaging the corner post brackets, said fastening means including a plate to bear against the side of the vertical longitudinal flange, and a transverse rivet to engage the tapered tongue, the end edge of said plate bearing against the vertical stop-plate; and supplementary side members attached to said side rails to conceal the side rails and 

